"Tanguy Viel's parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and
experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly
poses questions about the narrative structure it is deploying."
-The French Review In The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan,
disappearance is both a theme and a stylistic device. Indeed, this
publication narrates the disappearance of Dwayne Koster, who,
fascinated by the story of Jim Sullivan, commits suicide in the New
Mexico desert which was the setting of the rocker's disappearance
in 1975. But this novel is for the most part set in the
metanarrative tale of its own genesis, and, as a result, is
partially eclipsed: its -fictitious- author doesn't relate it in
its entirety and keeps adding bits and pieces of first drafts and
preliminary sketches to his text, thus blurring its boundaries.
Tanguy Viel's work can therefore be perceived as a double response,
existential and aesthetic, to the question of the end.
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